The Aeta people of the Philippines now speak multiple languages as a result of being colonized by different populations over generations. These languages include Mag-indi, Mag-antsi, Ambellen, and Tagalong, which is the most widely spoken language in the Philippines now. But, their original language was called Aeta Ambala. Aeta Ambala is their tribal language which anthropologists believe the Aeta people originally spoke when they migrated to the Philippines twenty to thirty thousand years ago. Since the Aeta are thought to be one of the first, or possibly the first inhabitants of the Philippines, Ambala was all they spoke. Also, because they are hunter-gathers and had no real reason to write anything down, Ambala was only recently developed into a writing system. In the second half of the twentieth century when the Philippines began to fully develop and actually keep records, historians developed Ambala into a written language. Ambala is only spoken in the Philippines by Aetas, and only about 2,000 people now speak the language. Tagalong is the most widely spoken language in the Philippines, but in the northern Philippines where the Aeta people live, languages like Mag-indi, Mag-antsi, and Ambellen are the most popular. They adopted these languages when they were colonized by others, and forced out of their homeland of Mount Pinatubo.
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